skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not everybody wants to be rich. Would it hurt anything if I had more money? Of course not, but I have everything that I need in life and I'm not that materialistic.

The man has been doing a job that he loves for 30+ years. Having had to work in places I hated to 'pay the bills' enough times in my life to grow weary of it, I understand the value of working on a good team with people I like and respect, doing what I love.

As the adage goes: Get a job doing what you love to do, and you'll never work a day in your life. Startups are fine and dandy, but trust me when I tell you, they're a ton of WORK. Even serial entrepreneurs will tell you that it's taxing, and not for everyone. I for one would be much happier nestled up to a keyboard, solving a problem than I would be doing many of the things one needs to do to make a startup viable.

In summation, everybody's priorities are not the same as yours, and I'd wager that you could stand to learn that lesson sooner than later.
I've been programming for 37 years. Programming is learning and learning makes me happy. I don't hunt, fish, play golf, chase women or drink in bars. I learn. I discover. This vocation is perfect for me.
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You're being ridiculous.
It's insurance. What he's saying is that the company is fragile right now, and any blip could very seriously harm their growth. The fundraising is a direct response to that risk analysis.

Otherwise, they would probably raise money later for a specific project requiring lots of capital (like a new vehicle, as mentioned).
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BetterPlace has come up with a way to solve that problem (rapidly interchangeable batteries), and now they just have to execute on their vision.

If you switch every gas station in the country for a place that swaps and charges batteries, electric cars are completely workable. The only question is how we get there from here.
I don't think the quote

they don't yet know for sure what's happening inside the chip

means what you think it means. I think in context this is an attempt to describe how quantum algorithms work, where they need a nonobserved superposition to operate.

They may well not understand their chips, but that's not supported by that quote in that context. You don't need to know the exact operations involved to solve an optimization problem with quantum computers (or for that matter with classical ones).
"So you're asserting that the 10% improvement by Supervision is because they used the raw RGB pixels. Is that right?"

No, what I meant is that SuperVision did very well because their feature space is richer than the other teams, but IMHO that is resulting for the deep convolutional process which it used to generate rich features. This is a good explanation of the subject:

http://ai.stanford.edu/~ang/papers/icml12-HighLevelFeaturesU...

I deleted all the comments I could as they were complaining about the title. Since it was changed to a proper one most of my comments are not relevant any more.
>The culture around your product is probably very different from the kernel devs' culture so it makes sense for you to have a different model.

I think he meant he wants the ability to enforce a certain behavior within his own group.
Just making heads roll is not going to magically improve software. You can keep firing your teams but if there are other issues like unrealistic deadlines, bad process you are going to get bad output even from good people; all firing will achieve is churn.
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I second what illuminate said. Plenty of society's systems hide info for potentially nefarious reasons, so that you have little choice but to draw your own conclusions. Just follow the money.
I don't disagree at all. But in reality, those tools exist and are all around us. What would be the value of putting that stuff into git itself? Why is it a shortcoming of git that it hasn't picked one?
Huh? Who got fired for mistaking a pendant for a calculator? Did you simply make that up?
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It would have been. It wouldn't have been enforced, however.

If you look at the history of civil rights jurisprudence, in the South before 1960 there were a lot of laws that looked race-neutral. Their actual intent was to keep black people from voting, however. It didn't fool the Supreme Court.

Software patents are just as illegal. But what actually happens?
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I now pronounce it S-Q-L (I do?)
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Yup, you're not the only one; I've noticed the same throughout the web at the fanciest web sites. I suspect it's caused by everything being placed inside layers of nested <div>s styled with CSS. It's particularly aggravating in mobile browsers, which have worse CSS support.

The worse offenders are whole rectangular paragraphs that behave as a single button, and text input fields that don't get recognized when I click on them on my android browser (Coursera, I'm looking at you).
Okay, that is basically keeping with my current understanding (though I'm not sure how much I live up to the "only have working history in the public repo" rule).

There is the other issue I raised, however: is there a good way to group a series of commits that happen to be towards a single distinct goal. Using branches is a clear step in that direction, but it seems like a nightmare to perform a rebase like you described if the commits are mixed and I would like the end result to involve grouping via branches. That is confusing, hopefully this will clear it up:

1. Bugfix in function1. 2. Bugfix in function2. 3. New feature in function2. 4. Bugfix in function1. 5. Bugfix in function2

...and we want in the end:

/-- 1 ---- 4 ---\
---< >--HEAD
\- 2 -- 3 -- 5 -/

Can rebase do this easily? Is this a good idea (it seems like it is to me)? The programmer would have to confirm that the code works at every state.
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The quality of Mono isn't nearly as good as the alternatives. Why bother using it? Just to say that you aren't locked into Windows with C#?
Oh, no, they sure don't! They feel like they're horribly oppressed.

But when you look at the actual legal privileges that the actual legal and political system actually affords them - like the privilege not to be insulted, not to mention the 450 free points (blacks over Asians) on their SAT - what you see is almost exactly the kinds of privileges that medieval polities gave their nobilities. I guess there's no sumptuary laws or stuff like that.
> If they wanted to minimize legal liability, saying nothing would have made more sense than publicly disclosing "embarrassing behavior" that lead to termination.

I agree. venturebeat kind of takes a jab at them in that regard.
As sethg pointed out, there's a difference between privete companies and sovereign countries.

When you lend money to a company and that company can't pay you back, bankruptcy law gets in the game. But when you lend money to a state, you know that there's a calculated risk that they won't be able to pay you and you won't be able to do anything to force them to pay your money back. You protect yourself by adjusting the interest rate. But if the risk is just too high and you lend anyway, it's up to you to take that bet...

If that country can't afford their debt, they can try to renegotiate with you, so you can get paid at least something. If it were a private company and the creditor does not accept the new terms, they could ask for a bankruptcy. As you can't do that with a country, if you reject the new terms, then the sovereign state can say "screw you" and never pay you anything. You had your chance to get something, and you lost it.

Some vulture funds buy this kind of bonds, and then try to reclaim the money... As I said earlier... good luck with that.

Even the U.S. Supreme Court and the US Government agrees with this [1].

That's why they are now trying this kind of weird actions, in some place where they managed to make a judge put his signature to their service... But it's mostly a media show.

[1] Supreme Court Rejects Elliott's Argentina Appeal http://www.finalternatives.com/node/20864

And some more extra info, even mentioning US Administration's support to Argentina's claim: http://marceloballve.wordpress.com/2012/06/27/who-pays-when-...
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I had a Facebook fan page with over 100,000 fans that was deleted suddenly for no reason. After around 3-4 weeks I got the page reinstated by using some contact links and email addresses I found by searching Google.

Facebook said we had posted inappropriate content but I was the only one with admin access and I'm absolutely 100% sure that never happened. Also the page was set up so users couldn't post images.

I think what must have happened was they had some kind of temporary exploit where someone was able to post inappropriate content that looked like it came from us, or maybe users were able to post something temporarily somehow. Or I guess it could have just been a glitch and nothing bad ever happened at all and that's why they reinstated it?
It was very stressful but I'm glad it's over now.
> The company has lost over $850 million since being founded in 2003.

I seem to recall that it takes the big 3 on the order of a billion dollars to bring a new automobile model to market. That includes the engineering, marketing, and the cost of tooling in the factories.

With that in mind, 850 million dollars doesn't strike me as being all that much capital for creating an entirely new automobile company.
...hopefully the other 99% of people reading it get the RIGHT message, as you did. there's still hope for mankind it seems :)
Control over the supply chain is what stops fake drugs from reaching consumers. A few months back a number of vials, purported to contain a cancer drug, were found to be nothing but solution of saline.

If anything, you're going to see many more actions like this, the FDA is scared about the integrity of the drug supply (and apparently so are many other countries, based on the article).
I think that this line of reasoning tends to assume that this is a binary decision: either have a fun workplace or have HR and rules.

That's not the case though, unless your only idea of run is "joking and acting in a way towards other employees that society finds reprehensible".
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I bet nobody got fired for mistaking a pendant for a calculator. There were actual offenses in the post, and in large number.
Oh please, I don't think anyone actually thought that his writing style would matter in terms of the outcome - the facts are the facts, no matter who states them. Moreover, anti-white racism is a well-known and long-time aspect of the black community that most white people have come to terms with as acceptable given the way that blacks have been treated for hundreds of years.
Why do you assume that "stereotypes will be at their worst" in a workforce that is mostly male, young, and white?
Is typestate still in? I read somewhere it was coming out in 0.4 but I don't see anything about it in the release notes. I think it's one of Rust's most interesting features and hope it does stay put.
You can enforce workflow via post-commit hooks if you get a bit creative, e.g.:

https://github.com/stephenh/git-central/blob/master/server/u...

Unfortunately I haven't done a lot with this project in a few years since github doesn't allow bash post commit hooks; you'd have to run your own git server.

(Edit to add...)

So, I understand your impression that it's impossible to enforce workflow in git, given GitHub doesn't support it, and most users probably don't want to write complex post-commit scripts.

But it is actually possible.

It'd be nice if communities like git-flow/etc. codified their rules into post-commit hooks that you could install, and maybe GitHub could even vet (e.g. that the bash scripts won't nuke their servers), and provide as out-of-the-box/opt-in options in the admin section of their repos. E.g. "Enforce git-flow in my repo".
Another nice one for kids ...
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/kodu/

VERY visually interesting and easy to make things happen

Only runs on xbox and windows
Give the people what they want!
Dangerous drugs like nicotine and alcohol are readily-available to most citizens. Whereas, pain medications and stimulants are so tightly controlled that they drive honest people to the Internet to obtain the drugs they can't afford or their doctors are afraid to prescribe.
I think "don't yet know for sure what's happening" is a bit misleading to the casual reader. If they're actually being honest it's more like: don't know that anything "special" is happening.

Frankly, their devices just aren't quantum computers until they can show they perform quantum mechanically. Until then, they are just hype. Bezos' investment is perfectly rational as an affiliation move -- if he was serious, he'd donate to, say, the Perimeter Institute in Waterloo where real quantum computer development is taking place. But the press releases for their accomplishments get several orders of magnitude less attention, so why bother? (or, is it that you just can't buy in to IBM -- also real work -- or HRL)

Their job ads [1-3] focus is very telling to me; which are mostly for new algorithms people, with long unfilled placements for physicists and materials engineers. The big development in QC this decade has been that "materials matter", and that you can't just throw qubits together willy-nilly. D-Wave scaled their qubit count (see the ridiculous "Rose's Law" slide [4]) basically by ignoring all these problems.

[1-3]
http://www.dwavesys.com/en/files/20120627_d-wave_algorithms_...
http://www.dwavesys.com/en/files/senior_engineer_2011.pdf
http://www.dwavesys.com/uploads/20091026_Design_Engineer.pdf
(http://www.dwavesys.com/en/careers.html)

[4] http://www.dwavesys.com/en/dev-tutorial-hardware.html
There are a lot of pretenders and bad developers out there. If I was serious about pursuing a job, I'd appreciate the opportunity to separate myself from the pretenders using something like Codility.
Don't most people actually end up using git in a centralised manner though? eg the rise of github.

I can totally see git is ridiculously powerful, and general purpose. I just wish it'd default to what most people want a bit more.
Uh, are you including yourself in that 3/4?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4604088

> Peppered throughout the post are cultural signs and signifiers that mark the author as an advocate for a fairly specific set of political and social beliefs. A reader could be excused for having concerns that the author was not an objective witness. On the other hand, those signifiers are so obvious that you could also question whether someone who had set out to unfairly tar the company would put them into the post.

The guy was rightfully incensed and his reaction is completely understandable. However, the style of the original post does make it hard to distinguish from embittered hyperbole. I think the important distinction is that there's a big difference between saying "I can't tell if this guy is for real" vs. "this guy is definitely lying".
I think counting users that click a like button off-Facebook is probably still valid - it's likely that Facebook will be serving ads off-Facebook at some point.
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How about $9.49 / month
By definition contracts are legally-enforceable, hence they are typically upheld by judges.
Oh, sorry, when you started talking about "illegal" and all that, I thought you were actually talking about the, you know, laws.
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I counted four "dumbwhites" and four people who got fired. Maybe I miscounted. I don't know. We obviously will receive no more information.

Do you think it's implausible that the pendant woman got fired? Would you say, that kind of thing can't happen in America?
Link please ?
Don't overlook Hoboken, Jersey City etc, even though they are technically in a different state
I'm less than 100% certain, but I think this is accounting/tax law at work. The UK entity sold you a gift card. The liability for that is on their books. They can't just move that number over to the US entity. They're separate. That explains the gift cards, the Kindle thing is either contracts with publishers or something else, but something they probably could solve.
Network partitioning is also a common occurrence on AWS, and people have to plan for that.
BTW, if anyone else was confused by the 450 SAT points comment, here's the detail:

"To receive equal consideration by elite colleges, Asian Americans must outperform Whites by 140 points, Hispanics by 280 points, Blacks by 450 points in SAT (Total 1600)."

From "No Longer Separate, Not Yet Equal:
Race and Class in Elite College Admission and Campus Life" by Thomas J. Espenshade & Alexandria Walton Radford (2009)

Source: http://80-20initiative.blogspot.com/2012/03/450-point-sat-ga...
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No, I don't. Read the rest of my comments in that thread. The post you're citing was my attempt to distill the controversy without advocating one way or another, because the author's post was long and easy to get side-tracked on.

All you have to do is click that link, then hit "CMD-F" or whatever your search hotkey is, and type "t-p-t-a"; you should almost immediately land on a comment that makes my opinion about the veracity of the story plain. I won't spoil it for you.
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I just checked http://skimfeed.com and around 30% of the feeds are coming in through feedburner.

A few big names: Techcrunch, GigaOM, Cnet, Make, High Scalability, Ted, Tutsplus, Cracked, Metafilter, Discovery, Destructoid.
So.. I'm working on a website that is primarily for reading. Just looking at the statistics, there is 7.9 million people out of 300 million in the US that will have either be blind or effectively blind. That's 2.6% of the population that won't be able to access my site. That's below my threshold for dropping browser support.

I'm pretty sure my time would be better spend making it visually better than learning about accessibility.
Yes, I think it's implausible.
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Only your work time is valuable. Fucking with scammers is liesure time. It's like working in your garden.
Is a form of entertainment. Nothing wrong with that.
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Thetaboard is also integrated with edocr.com now and should see traffic filtering from us, as more and more people become aware of the benefits Thetaboard brings
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$120 a year for rss feed traffic figures? I say go volume and increase price post-growth. $12/year.
Sarah Lacy did what I thought was a great hour-long "Fireside Chat" with Mr. Musk: http://pandodaily.com/2012/07/12/pandomonthly-presents-a-fir...

It's well worth listening to.
The VPS market is crap if want to look at the low end market.

This comes from my own experience running my own small scale VPS host for a few years, with a purposely small customer base (mostly people I knew personally).

Look at WHT and follow it for a while. That market is crowded, a race to the bottom in pricing AND support, and is full of drama. Some examples I've seen:

* Lack of experience in production systems with no backup procedure... some systems go down, they loose all data, entire business caves.

* Super tight margins and low capital... fall behind on a build, their provider shuts them down (most these guys are leasing dedicated servers or reselling from another provider)

* Don't know who really is in control... reselling from someone and don't know who? On dedicated servers with a provider who is known for a problematic network?

* They're some 16 year old and their dad grounds them from the computer so they can't answer support tickets.

* Don't understand the technology they're using for virtualization and get noisy neighbors, don't properly secure exploits, don't understand the inner working of their COTS control panel, etc.

* Look up the history of Lxadmin. VERY popular control panel package, company behind it, but most coding/knowledge behind the CEO. Big exploit found, 100k servers exploited, CEO commits suicide. Company is dangling. Believe licensing servers went offline. All providers using them were screwed. They were using COTS software, didn't know their own stack, left scrambling.

Stick with providers that are a real company. Employees of their own, support staff of their own, own their own equipment, etc.

Linode is great, EC2 is great, and there are several other providers.
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We don't need the next Apple or Google to come out of the developing world. We need legions of successful small businesses. Eventually an Apple or Google may come out of it, but thats more a vanity goal than anything else.
While that's likely the case, at the end of the day if FB is trying to be an advertising platform, they can't do it without competent customer service to ensure they're not cannibalizing their own intent.
Bezos may be a very smart guy, but I don't see - short of him becoming an expert in quantum physics - how his investing or not investing in this company means anything with respect to them being onto something.
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> Can the spirit of enterprise be taught?

That's the wrong question to ask.

The correct question to ask would be: "Does the government of that country let entrepreneurs breathe?"

Having witnessed first-hand how taxation systems work in real-life in the U.S. and in a few poor countries, I can say this: when the IRS has suspicions about your accounting treatments, they begin sending you letters politely asking for photocopies of individual legal documents. There are a few rounds of this back-and-forth, after which the IRS figures out whether you committed fiscal fraud or not. This is pretty much a hands-off approach.

In poor countries, where governments are usually corrupt, things happen differently. Tax inspectors show up (unexpectedly and carrying guns) at the door of your small business. They are incentivized by the policies of the fiscal enforcement agency not to leave until they found even the tiniest mistake in your accounting treatments. And then they slap a hefty fine on you - legislations in poor countries do not provide for any sort of sense of proportion. Also, legislations are contradictory and skewed such that you can't really be an honest entrepreneur, even if you try really hard. There is always more than one accounting treatment for anything more complex than revenue=5, expenses=4 => profit=1. And the tax inspectors slap you with fines for not going with the other accounting treatment.

All of this has a chilling effect on entrepreneurship, unfortunately.
>>Let my try to explain this with evolutionary algorithms

Is it me or did you not actually explain anything. It sounds very interesting but you just gave an introduction.
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Awesome - glad to see PicBackMan on the list. We are excited about our mission to end photo backup anxiety for everyone around the world!
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You can't have your cake and eat it too. It came off as pretentious to me.